Systems


Thinking In Systems: A Primer
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Complexity: A Guided Tour
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Chaos: Making a New Science
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Business Dynamics
Summa technologiae by Stanisław LemThe Knowledge Machine by Michael StrevensThe Epistemic Life of Groups by Michael S. BradyThe Engines of Cognition by LessWrongEmpire and Communications by Harold A. Innis
PIBBSS Library
71 books — 1 voter

Doughnut Economics by Kate RaworthFor the Common Good by Herman E. DalyBeyond Growth by Herman E. DalyLimits to Growth by Donella H. MeadowsBiomimicry by Janine M. Benyus
Regenerative Economics
22 books — 1 voter
The Antidotes by Patty MechaelTree of Life by Rochelle StraussChildren Just Like Me by Catherine SaundersBorn With a Bang by Jennifer MorganEnergy Island by Allan Drummond
Systems Thinking for Children
26 books — 7 voters


Nick Harkaway
Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewher ...more
Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

Lewis Fry Richardson
Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.
Lewis Fry Richardson

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